FOA Planning Guide

Class Concepts

• Persuasive Language in Media
• Ideas from different political speeches (Obama-Keneddy), different ads, and essay of Iris Breuer & Melanie Napthine with Rosemary O’Shea,etc.

Sources

http://www.insightpublications.com.au/pdf_preview/Persuasive-Language-in-Media-Texts-10-pages.pdfhttp://changingminds.org/techniques/language/persuasive/persuasive.htm 
http://www.managetrainlearn.com/page/an-appeal-from-Aristotle 
http://medialiteracyproject.org/language-persuasion 
http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/speech-topics/persuasive-speech.htm 
http://www.speechgems.com/persuaders.html 
http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/presidential-speeches/john-f-kennedy-speech-we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon.htm

• Thesis: Language is not only superficial. When we read somethin we have to be aware that language in Media have many hidden message to convince or persuade people, with different techniques.
• Media trying to persuade us is something that affect all of us nowadays, because of the world we are living in it. Persuasion is a very powerfull and frequent element.

TEXT

• This investigation would help me to understand better and know some new techniques uses by the people and the Media, to persuade us.

Research

• In this presentation we will present our point of view, supported with our analysis based on what we have learned.
• The important elements of this presentation would be the verb 'to persuade', the techniques uses such us emotive language, the 'three rule', etc.
• Iris Breuer & Melanie Napthine with Rosemary O’Shea, are the author that we extract the ideas from.